Advanced Sensing, Actuating and Controlling Intelligence of Surgical Robotics

In recent years, with the versatile integration of robotics and minimally invasive surgical techniques, surgical robotics are gradually evolving to intelligent surgical robotics with intelligent perception, intelligent control, and smart executive mechanism. Intelligent surgical robotics have tremendously extended and enhanced the operation, perception, and analysis ability of surgeons, and have significant advantages in clinical practice. It significantly reduces the dependence of traditional surgery on the professional knowledge and experience of surgeons, thus overcomes the shortcomings of inaccurate operations and large injuries, and improves the quality of minimally invasive surgery. Although surgical robotics have made great progress in the past 40 years, there are still technical limitations in the aspects of multimodal sensing, dexterous actuator design, and intelligent control. The intelligence of surgical robots is still a scientific frontier that many scholars pay attention to and strive to break through.

This collection is dedicated to providing a platform for scholars to showcase achievements in the field of intelligent surgical robotics to improve their effectiveness and safety in clinical application. The scope focuses on multimodal sensing technology such as force, shape, and vision. etc., dexterous actuator design and its driving method, control strategies, and clinical applications of intelligent surgical robotics. We encourage the submission of the latest progress· and applications, which include intelligent sensing, actuating, and controlling of surgical robotics.

Sensing, Actuating, and Controlling Intelligence in Surgical Robotics aims to publish high quality recent research on sensing technology, actuator design, control system, and clinical application in the field of surgical robotics.

We encourage submissions on a wide range of research topics, relevant to intelligent surgical robotics, including:
- Multimodal sensing technology in confined space (including but not limited to force, tactile, shape, vision, and environment sensing, etc.)
- Dexterous robot actuator (including but not limited to rigid and flexible actuator design and its driving method, etc.)
- Robot autonomous control (including but not limited to model-based control methods, model-free control methods based on the integration of multi-sensing information, etc.)
- Robot-assisted applications in surgeries (including but not limited to applications in orthopedics surgery, laparoscopic surgery, eye surgery, vascular interventional surgery, and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery, etc.)